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The Center for Safe Sport was recently created to tackle the issue of protecting America’s athletes. Penn State will be represented on the inaugural board by chief ethics and compliance officer Regis Becker.

Former Penn State president Graham Spanier officially filed his lawsuit against Louis Freeh for defamation and tortious interference on Wednesday, which came in conjunction with another complaint filed against Penn State for breach of contract.

A year and a half after filing a lawsuit against his former employer, fencing coach Emmanuil Kaidanov has reached a settlement with Penn State. The university announced on Friday night that the suit has been resolved, but provided no detail on what the settlement entailed.

Whether you’re well-versed in the 2015 election and want a quick refresher or need to do some last-minute cramming before heading into the booth, we have you covered with our comprehensive election guide.

Kayla passed away this week, but her memories and her stories live on. If you ask her boyfriend, she was “the most genuinely happy and friendly person I’ve ever met. It was so easy to love her, even for those who only knew of her from following her story the past two years.”

Another pair of former Penn State football assistant coaches is suing the university. Unlike Jay Paterno and William Kenney, this duo isn’t alleging that its reputation and job prospects were damaged, but that the university owes them unpaid wages.

The Olympics are nearing, and Aksamit wants a spot on the United States national team when it travels to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics. The journey to Rio involves a packed itinerary of training and competing to qualify for the team, and that path is unfortunately an expensive one.

Adam Zydney, 26, was arrested and charged with possession of child pornography after police found a cache of 591 files on his computer. Zydney is the son of State College school district board member Laurel Zydney and has previously worked with children in a number of roles.

The 17th Annual State College Brew Expo will take over the mountainside on Saturday, with 44 breweries on tap for the beer festival. Those range from the locals like Otto’s, to the Pennsylvanian like Troegs, to the big breweries like Samuel Adams and Magic Hat.

Dr. Thomas Pritchard was a faculty member for more than 30 years as part of the neural and behavioral sciences department in the College of Medicine. He was lost at sea while diving the Andrea Doria’s wreck on July 21.

If preseason award watch lists are any indication, Christian Hackenberg is poised for a big season. The junior Penn State quarterback earned his fourth watch list spot on Thursday courtesy of the Manning Award.

President Barron’s operating budget and tuition schedule proposal for the 2015-16 academic year, which the board will vote on later in Friday’s meeting, includes no increase in tuition for in-state undergraduate students.

The Penn State Board of Trustees will have some serious numbers to mull over on Friday. The board’s finance committee passed an operating budget for the 2015-16 fiscal year and the tuition schedule on Thursday morning.

“There has never in the history of the universe been a culture change that didn’t require a lot of people to do something,” Dorothy Edwards says. “We need to get lots of people at Penn State to each say I will do my moment, and when we get there, our numbers are going to shift.”

For Penn State student leaders, the safety of their constituents is of the utmost importance. That’s why a group of representatives from student government and Greek life stopped by Monday’s borough council meeting.